Friday, August 16, 2013

Who painted this? #40

Who painted this? #40

I've been seriously considering buying myself a parasol this summer!

[UPDATE: OK - this is the first time I have had everybody seriously stumped for an answer for two days - so clue coming up!! This is by a British painter who's not British born and who is not known for painting landscapes.]

For those who've not risen to the challenge before please take a minute to read the rules - see below.

Who painted this? #39 is a painting of the view of the display beds in front of the Palm House at Kew Gardens (out of the picture on the right) and in between it and the big pond / small lake (out of the picture to the left).

The really odd things about this painting is to see a painting of just the beds without either the lake or the Palm House which are both very strong motifs in virtually all images of this part of the garden.

I note the stone fantasy animals (griffin etc) have not yet been erected in front of the Palm House.

Here's a photo I took of the same scene some 119 years later!

The beds in front of the Palm House 20 April 2011

Who guessed correct?

Who painted this #39? Congratulations to Tessa Spanton (a.k.a. Colours and Textures) who provided the first correct answer to last week's challenge. As I expected the first four answers came from people who recognised the style as being Pissaro. Which just goes to show knowing your artists helps a lot with these challenges!

It looks as if this one have some people quite a journey to track it down!

If you'd like to study how people get the correct answer try studying past challenges which are listed in the Page Who painted this? - at the the top of the Page. Since of the requirements is to say how you found it, you can see the various ways people get to the answer.

Wow,you got me this time. Think I looked at thousands, yes, thousands of images before I gave up. Never, would I have linked this work with this artist (and I have come across this artist's work before). If you type in this artist's name in google's images, it doesn't appear! Well done. Enjoyed the challenge, even if I failed

Artist...Lawrence Alma-TademaTitle...Sunny DaysMedium....Oil on CanvasDate.. 1874Where it is ...Yale Centre for British ArtHow I found it...With great difficulty! I went through thousands of images to no avail. Thinking it might be an early work I started Googling artists of the right period (from the clothes). Again nothing. When I saw Jacqui Boyd`s comment ( re never connecting the artist with the work ) I thought I was probably on the right road but wouldn`t arrive via Google. So I typed landscape girl into Wikimedia Commons and to my amazement it popped up almost immediatly.

Either my comment got lost in cyberspace or I am on to something?I haven't got any further though.When I first saw the image it made me think of Boxhill or Farthing Down and I thought it was a Victorian watercolour. Since the clue and homing in on Sir Lawrence Alma-TademaI think more likely oil and maybe that is his daughter under the parasol.

Title of the artwork: Sunny DaysName of the artist: Lawrence Alma-TademaDate it was created: 1874Media used: Oil on canvas Where it lives now: Yale Center for British ArtHow do I know all this:

I didn’t start looking until you offered the clues about the artistSpent a while on fruitless searches of British painters that weren’t born in BritainDecided I needed a more structured approachDecided the picture was probably painted around the turn of the last centuryStarted looking at the list of British Painters in Wikipedia for artists that weren’t born in Britain and were alive in 1900Searched for “Lawrence Alma-Tadema landscape” in Google Images. This returned links to 94 Degrees in the Shade, which looked promisingSearched for “Lawrence Alma-Tadema landscape parasol” in Google Images. This returned a link to the image on a dodgy looking copying siteChecked for Lawrence Alma-Tadema paintings in Wikipedia commons.The information is from there and cross-referenced with the museum website.

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